Special Mounts

I love the mob-mount idea <3

Man, I don't know about anyone else but I thought the images of the goobbue mouth last night was the most exciting part of the whole video. >>
Totally hope that turns into a real thing.

What better way to immortalize your character as one of the first to set foot in Eorzea? I'm definitely sticking around now. It'll only take me a few more uninterrupted days to get to 50 now. Thank God for Thanksgiving Break.

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Q: Will there be any kind of special item given to players that start subscribing now and keep playing through 2.0?

A: In addition to the achievement that will be related to the Seventh Umbral Era, we are thinking about giving players a special mount… (Showed some early test footage of characters riding enemies like Ahriman, Drakes, and Goobues!)

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There is one thing I hope for, though.

The ability to CHOOSE our mount. I don't want to be pegged to a Goobue or Ahriman because I joined the Limsa Lominsan Grand Company.

That...would be just rude.

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Originally Posted by SilvertearRen

...The ability to CHOOSE our mount. I don't want to be pegged to a Goobue or Ahriman because I joined the Limsa Lominsan Grand Company...

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I fully agree- It would be silly to peg players to only certain mounts. Especially when it might of influenced our decision of which GC we would join.

...and Magitek armor mount FTW.

I'm not sure why people are worried about Goobbues filing up everyones' screens. I very rarely see more than one chocobo around and I'd imagine there are going to be even less people playing once p2p starts (Which means that only a small percentage of the population, come v2.0 would actually have goobbues.) The only time a group of mounts would be in your screen is when you are traveling to a camp with your party.

This game isn't like WoW where you can flood the town with mounts which is where you actually see the most clutter of mounts on your screen at once. Hell, since they are making the game a lot more centralized around instanced dungeons, we may never use our mounts.

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Originally Posted by Shikaree

I'm sure it's been brought up before, but in the case of this topic I'll bring it up. Goobbue mounts!

(Credit to the person who made this)

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Originally Posted by Ryans

This game isn't like WoW where you can flood the town with mounts which is where you actually see the most clutter of mounts on your screen at once. Hell, since they are making the game a lot more centralized around instanced dungeons, we may never use our mounts.

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Yeah, I was sort of wondering why they're even bothering with mounts if they want to make everything instanced anyways. And they want to make a cross-server group finder. Sounds like it'd just teleport you into the instance with your group and there wouldn't be much/any traveling anyways because the game might become one big lobby. o.o; (boring~~)
But I'd reeeeeeeaaally love if we had lots of open world content~~ *nudges SE*

Those mounts aren't set in stone or anything, but say they did give us 3.. I wonder if we get all 3 or only get to choose one. If only one.. well there aren't many monsters in the game that I like (or that even seem suitable for riding on), so it'd be an easy decision for me. The only ones I've ever wanted were antelope, drake, and a horse-like monster like the sleipnir from FFXII:
http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__...x-Sleipnir.jpg

Finally a thread that makes sense.

+1

I am torn between Ahriman, Goobue, and sometime the magitek...

Which would be best for a Red Wizard to have!?

i think it would be awesome to get a special pre 2.0 mount.

I can't wait for these mounts! The idea is freaking epic! I hope they think of more mob mounts to give us than just the three they showed off. Like maybe a Malberro!! <spelling?> You all know what I mean!

I'm afraid i have to choose the side that those that stick with the game through p2p get something special that new players won't be able to get. For those that are equating this to WoW paying for mounts there are some similarities however you are paying for a game you get to play and this is an extra for your patronage. During the p2p time those of us that stick around can further develop our characters, only those that are 50 on all jobs and have no desire to try any of the new content they will be adding can say that its not worth while.

Each of the new mount ideas have some pro and cons goobue is going to be the biggest challenge to look right when there are multiple on screen at the same time, they need to clean up the drake animation so the leg of the rider doesn't go through the drake's front leg and the ahriman needs to scale well with galka > taru riders.

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Originally Posted by Jinrya-Geki

I am torn between Ahriman, Goobue, and sometime the magitek...

Which would be best for a Red Wizard to have!?

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Probably a donkey.

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Originally Posted by RemVye

Probably a donkey.

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Oh you and your Donkey Knights.